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Indiana plant project a go after Pakistan fears
MOUNT VERNON – Construction should start this year on a $2.7 billion fertilizer plant in southwest Indiana more than three years after the project was announced.Midwest Fertilizer Co. officials saidMonday that the company has awarded a contract to design and build the project on a 226-acre sitenear Mount Vernon, about 20 miles west of Evansville. The plantis projected to be complete in 2020, Midwest Fertilizer President Mike Chorlton told the Evansville Courier & Press.The plant will produce nitrogen fertilizer and diesel exhaust fluid for the U.S. market.The principal sponsor and developer is Fatima Fertilizer Co., part of Pakistan-based Fatima Group. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence withdrew state support for the project in early 2013, citing U.S. military officials’ concerns about fertilizer made overseas by Fatima Group being used in roadside explosives in Afghanistan.Pence dropped his opposition in 2014 after a review by the U.S. Department of Defense found Fatima had been cooperating with the government. But Midwest Fertilizer withdrew its request for state economic incentives last year.John Taylor, executive director of the Posey County Economic Development Partnership, said theproject will have a big economic impact, creating more than 2,500 construction jobs and about 200 plant positions
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/...nt-project-a-go-after-Pakistan-fears-11225784
MOUNT VERNON – Construction should start this year on a $2.7 billion fertilizer plant in southwest Indiana more than three years after the project was announced.Midwest Fertilizer Co. officials saidMonday that the company has awarded a contract to design and build the project on a 226-acre sitenear Mount Vernon, about 20 miles west of Evansville. The plantis projected to be complete in 2020, Midwest Fertilizer President Mike Chorlton told the Evansville Courier & Press.The plant will produce nitrogen fertilizer and diesel exhaust fluid for the U.S. market.The principal sponsor and developer is Fatima Fertilizer Co., part of Pakistan-based Fatima Group. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence withdrew state support for the project in early 2013, citing U.S. military officials’ concerns about fertilizer made overseas by Fatima Group being used in roadside explosives in Afghanistan.Pence dropped his opposition in 2014 after a review by the U.S. Department of Defense found Fatima had been cooperating with the government. But Midwest Fertilizer withdrew its request for state economic incentives last year.John Taylor, executive director of the Posey County Economic Development Partnership, said theproject will have a big economic impact, creating more than 2,500 construction jobs and about 200 plant positions
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/...nt-project-a-go-after-Pakistan-fears-11225784
